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I came home this weekend to find my new Intel Macbook Pro is bad shape. My teenager heard you could put XP on Macs so he decided to reformat MY laptop with a Windows XP CD and now it won't so much as recognize any OS X software period. None of my Install CD's will even pull up and no key sequences work either! Please help me...and my son...he wants to live! Thanks in advance.

I now know why some animals consume their young! My son has killed my laptop by installing XP over Tiger by way of reformat and now I can't find a way to reverse this. It won't even recognize any OS X anything! Thanks

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have you tried holding down the "option" key at boot up? if there is a os X cd in the drive it should show up as a bootable option. Are you sure your mac partition is actually gone? maybe the windows partition is what is selected as the startup disc. If this is the case all you have to do is set os X as the start up disc.

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It works, but not really well. I went ahead and tried to reformat again with XP but I created a extra partition with nothing on it. I am going to try and locate some dmg files that I can place inside it even though XP won't open them then go back in and erase the xp partition. Anyone know what I should place in that extra partition that would allow my OS X disk to load? Thanks again everyone!

i believe if you just put your install disks in and do what the link louishen provided says, you should be in good shape.

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